Thursday, 18 August 2022

 Mr ATKINSON (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:45): (1933) My question is to the Minister for Planning, and it concerns the development of Croydon shopping centre on Wicklow Avenue, where the owners of that centre, Haben, a New South Wales based company, has proposed 12-storey towers on that site. The planning scheme allows for four storeys. A four-storey process was agreed to by the council and the community, but Haben has put in a fresh application to VCAT, basically compromising all of the community engagement that occurred. Can I ask the minister if she will review this process, because it has implications for other planning issues as well as the Croydon one.